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Re: I’m Working at Rikers Island During the Pandemic. I Have Urgent Questions About Our Safety.

A friend of mine interviewed someone who works at Rikers Island and wrote about it. So many important questions we need answers to:

Right now, what I would like to ask is: What are the measures that will be taken if this outbreak takes over the island? How would the employees be treated? What would happen to inmates? How would the isolation go? We already have facilities on the island that are closed down. If they’re going to open these facilities, who are the people that are going to work there? No one would want to risk working in a place where a lot of people are very sick. How can we test everyone? We don’t have enough test kits in New York City. If you get sick, how would that affect your job? Are we going to get quarantined on the island? If so, how long would that be? What would be the outcome after? When all the smoke clears, are there going to be layoffs? We’re releasing all of these inmates. If the rate of inmates goes down, what’s going to happen in the facility? Because we have approximately 6,000 officers to 4,000 inmates. How is that going to go?

https://medium.com/@DrewBreez/im-working-at-rikers-island-during-the-pandemic-i-have-urgent-questions-about-our-safety-98e388d62fab

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Bill Gates does not agree with this administration's stupid ideas

“There really is no middle ground, and it’s very tough to say to people, ‘Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts,’” Gates said in an interview with TED Tuesday. “It’s very irresponsible for somebody to suggest that we can have the best of both worlds.”

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/24/21192638/coronavirus-bill-gates-trump-reopen-business

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Re: Why Losing Your Sense of Smell Could Be a Coronavirus Symptom

I’ve been hearing about this over the past few days. Loss of smell and/or taste might be a symptom of COVID-19. If you’re experiencing anything like that, it’s a good idea to self isolate until you’re feeling normal again.

Hopefully sometime soon I’ll be able to give the better advice of getting a home testing kit in this case.

https://time.com/5809037/coronavirus-sense-of-smell-taste/

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Re: America Is a Sham

All over America, the coronavirus is revealing, or at least reminding us, just how much of contemporary American life is bullshit, with power structures built on punishment and fear as opposed to our best interest. Whenever the government or a corporation benevolently withdraws some punitive threat because of the coronavirus, it’s a signal that there was never any good reason for that threat to exist in the first place.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/coronavirus-tsa-liquid-purell-paid-leave-rules.html

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